The Railway Station
There are no Finnish buildings
available on the market, but a Dutch company Artitec manufactures high quality resin building
kits, and they also offer some Norwegian and Swedish buildings
(eg. Vafoss, Nyåker and Solbacken). With small changes they
are also suitable for Finnish landscape. The kits are much more
higher quality and more detailed, than usual model kits (Faller,
Pola etc.) They are also relatively easy and fast to build, this
project took only two week's evenings. The kits can be ordered
from: http://www.hobbyworld.nl/.
The Nyåker station is a standard Swedish station and 43
identical buildings have been built allover in Sweden. Similar
station building are also in Finland in various colour schemes.
To my project I chose the beige/brown colours as in the station
of town Kokkola.
ARTITEC model kits are made using
a plastic (resin) cast technique, under vacuum conditions.
The parts are cut apart and the
additional film is sanded away. The job is more easy as one could
expect, and it took only 4-5 hours to prepare all parts.
It is instructed to paint the walls
after assembly. However I painted the walls and other parts first
and only made some finishing painting and weathering after assembly.
Separately painted window frames are glued on the walls.
The building is assembled with
super glue (cyano). I also made extra supports of balsa wood in
the corners.
It is instructed to glue one half
of the roof at the time with cyano-glue, but I glued the both
sides at same time with a white glue to be able to adjust the
positions. Additionally I made two ridge beams of balsa wood to
support the roof.
The stairs are placed in front
of the doors when the dock is finished.